Potter and Potter Auctions: The Ricky Jay Collection: Part 3, 1187, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- August 17, 2024 - August 17, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | Die Barnum & Bailey Groesste Schaustellung der Welt. |
Cincinnati | 1901 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,880.00 | |
| 57 | The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show On Earth. |
Cincinnati, New York, London | ca. 1904. | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 1,320.00 | |
| 58 | The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show On Earth. Equitation De Haute-Ecole. |
Cincinnati & New York | 1900 | USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 600.00 | |
| 59 | [BEARDED LADY]. CLOFULLIA, Josephine (1829 -- 70) | The Miracle of the Age. The Swiss Bearded Lady. |
New York | 1855 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 720.00 |
| 60 | BENEVOL (Luigi Maria Benevelo 1865 - 1939) | Le Legendaire Professeur Benevol. |
Paris | ca. 1910. | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 480.00 |
| 61 | [BENSLEY, Harry 1876 or 1877 -- 1956]. | Walking Round the World Masked. |
England. | 1908 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 240.00 |
| 62 | BISHOP, Washington Irving (1855 -- 1889) | Exposure of So-Called Spiritual Manifestations. |
N.p. | ca. 1878. | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 330.00 |
| 63 | BISHOP, Washington Irving (1855 -- 1889) | Second Sight Explained. A Complete Exposition of Clairvoyance or Second Sight, as Exhibited by the Late Robert Houdin and Robert Heller. |
Edinburgh & Glasgow | 1880 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 390.00 |
| 64 | BLACK, Jack. | You Can't Win. |
New York | 1926 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,440.00 |
| 65 | [BLIND MUSICIAN]. Prof. Frank L. Taylor. | The Blind Harmonica Soloist and Humorist. |
Bath, Maine | N.d.. | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 210.00 |
| 66 | BLITZ, Signor (Antonio Van Zandt, 1810 - 77) | Sig. Blitz the Celebrated Professor of Ventriloquism & Thaumaturgics. |
Dorchester? | 1845 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 780.00 |
| 67 | BLONDIN, Charles (Jean Francois Gravelet, 1824 -- 97) | Archive of Blondin Documents, Ephemera, and Publications. |
Circa 1890 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,360.00 | |
| 68 | The Enchanted Scrap Book. |
London | ca. 1840 | USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,600.00 | |
| 69 | Humpty Dumpty. The Great Trick Book. |
New York | 1869 | USD 1,200.00 - 2,400.00 | USD 3,840.00 | |
| 70 | A French Early 19th Century Blow Book. |
France | ca. 1820 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 3,840.00 | |
| 71 | [BLOW BOOK]. DUCELLE, Signor. | The Little Joker! Or, the Illustrated Magic Blank Book. |
New York | 1859 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 660.00 |
| 72 | [BLOW BOOK]. ANTES, Horst (b. 1936) | Flickbuch and Fresh Breath on the Blow Book. |
Frankfurt | 2000 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 510.00 |
| 73 | BOAISTUAU, Pierre (Edward Fenton, translator) | Certaine secrete wonders of nature, containing a description of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, because we are priuie to the reasons of them. |
London | 1569 | USD 700.00 - 1,400.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
| 74 | [BONASSUS]. LANE, Theodore (attribution) | An Old Friend with a New Face or the Baron in Disguise. |
London | 1821 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 270.00 |
| 75 | BORUWLASKI, [Jozef]. (1739 -- 1837) | Memoirs of Count Boruwlaski containing a sketch of his travels, with an account of his reception at the different courts of Europe, &c. &c. |
Durham | 1820 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 76 | BORUWLASKI, (Joseph) | Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf. Two printed and one manuscript copy, including: Memoirs. |
Kelso | 1801 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 77 | BOSCO, Giovanni Bartolomeo. | Gabinetto Magico. Nona Edizione. |
Milan and Voghera | 1879 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 240.00 |
| 78 | BOSTOCK, Edward Henry (1858 - 1940) | Bostock & Wombwell's Royal No. 1 Menagerie. |
Glasgow | ca. 1905. | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 79 | Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts / Mr. Young, the Great Eastern Necromancer. |
Boston | ca. 1870s? | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 240.00 | |
| 80 | The Bottle Conjurer's Arms. |
Dublin | ca. 1800 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,020.00 |
![<b>Forum, Nov. 7:</b> [Carr (John Dickson)], "Carter Dickson" and John Rhode. <i>Drop to his Death,</i> first edition, Heinemann, [1939]. £600 to £800.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b3755d4d-1805-4e33-969b-59cca97eb26e.png "<b>Forum, Nov. 7:</b> [Carr (John Dickson)], \"Carter Dickson\" and John Rhode. <i>Drop to his Death,</i> first edition, Heinemann, [1939]. £600 to £800.")
![<b>Forum, Nov. 7:</b> [Day-Lewis (Cecil)] "Nicholas Blake". <i>The Beast Must Die,</i> first edition, 1938. £750 to £1,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b1a17968-ead3-471f-b6b2-ccd4e31c0e2c.png "<b>Forum, Nov. 7:</b> [Day-Lewis (Cecil)] \"Nicholas Blake\". <i>The Beast Must Die,</i> first edition, 1938. £750 to £1,000.")
![<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> GOULD, John. <i>A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds.</i> L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5a5a37a4-bc84-4fa8-b8b8-bad6106a9297.jpg "<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> GOULD, John. <i>A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds.</i> L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.")
![<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00aa5647-98fa-42e5-aa1f-e306d308a753.jpg "<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.")
![<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> GOULD. <i>A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans.</i> L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/529a982d-de64-41cf-b68c-93f0df023bfc.jpg "<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> GOULD. <i>A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans.</i> L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.")
![<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> SELBY. <i>Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology.</i> Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5c121f9c-5368-40ac-a487-76508b5ac622.jpg "<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> SELBY. <i>Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology.</i> Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.")
